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by baron816 6y ago
Someone should do a study comparing the two labor markets. There’s definitely a thesis somewhere in there for an economics PhD student. How is it that two very similar industries that nearly share the same talent pool can have radically dif
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I wouldn’t necessarily say the first thing is good. Those profits are partially the result of non-competitive behavior everyone would be better off if they were much smaller. But, indeed, the title is there to be provocative.
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The title makes it sound like the tech companies are making those record profits by evicting people.
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Yikes
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I'm not totally sold on the merits of teaching kids to code. I didn't learn how to code until I was 27 and turned out fine.
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I think I might trust an “AI” pilot more than a human one. Human pilots often fail to respond to unexpected conditions as well (see Air France Flight 447). Pilots have also gone nuts and crashed the plane intentionally (see Germanwings Flig
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by baron816 6y ago
I really don't get the rush to try to travel to/colonize Mars. Mars is a really awful place for humans to live or visit, and it would be incredibly expensive to try. Why not wait 50-100 years when we have safe, compact fusion reac
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Government policy: prevent people from ruining their lives with drugs by ruining it for them with prison.
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Frontend development has gotten more difficult in recent years as the tools we have available have gotten more powerful. Designers and product managers demand more as they see other companies push the limits of what is capable. There should
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Some time ago, I looked at my alma mater’s course list to complete a CS major (I was an Econ major) since I was curious to see how useful those classes might have been to me now as a SWE. Not very much, IMO. If I were to mentor someone ente
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Taxes to pay for pensioners, mind you.
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I think we need to come up with effective alternative to whiteboard interviews. Who’d be interested in forming a working group to come up with something?
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All coins are pretty terrible. When the US was trying to push those dollar coins, there was an argument that the government would make money by selling the new coins (through seigniorage), but that argument was counteracted by the fact that
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by baron816 6y ago
Thanks for the response. I’m also curios how other languages are contending with the backlash against gendered words. Everything in French, Spanish, Italian, etc. is gendered, right?
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Sorry that this is off topic, but what’s the situation with the term “masterclass” now that we’ve determined that we shouldn’t use the word “master”. Same with “masterpiece,” “master craftsman,” “headmaster,” “master Jedi,” etc. edit: I’m g
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Judging by stereotypes, I wouldn’t expect people here to pay that much attention to their looks. But clearly it matters...a lot. After reading this article, it shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone why people, especially women, spend so much ti
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It’s really not fair to criticize Big Tech for not having demographics that mirror the US population as a whole. There’s so many large, societal factors standing in the way of black people and people of color from being able to even conside
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by baron816 6y ago
There was an Economist article on this exactly: https://www.economist.com/business/2020/05/09/japanese-offic...
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Ask HN: Has the market for software engineers diminished at all?
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Government’s policy: to prevent people from ruining their lives with drugs, we’re going to ruin their lives for them.
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Did you also have to apply for it via fax?
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> Black people make up 13% of the US population, we are naturally in the minority. But in the tech workforce, we are missing. Among the top eight largest tech companies in the land, black people account for only 3.1% of the workforce. I
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What’s the logic of them selling to Amazon? Why didn’t they just continue on and try to raise more money? I assume this was purely a move of desperation and they couldn’t. Is this just a full blown acquihire? Also, what happens to employees
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I really hope we see some specialized remote worker residential communities in the future. Actually, I’m sure there’ll be money in building them. Imagine a small town with no cars or roads. The community has lots of events to socialize you
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> It goes to show that libraries like React and Vue are _not_ necessary to build smooth, modern, and fully-featured web interfaces. Ugh, I hate this trend of hating on the front end frameworks “trend”. You can build some things without
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Why would you pay for something people are giving you for free? If people are volunteering that information, I think it’s fine to use it to finance the free product they’re getting. I’m totally free to not use Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc.
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How do you get your coworkers to start proofreading what they write?
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Sorry, it’s not usually up to young web developers on whether to use a SPA or not, nor whether to prioritize accessibility. Advocating accessibility is nice though, so do try.
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Yeah, get rid of “slave”. The “master” thing I think is easy to remove too, so might as well, but I don’t think it’s nearly as bad. Think of all the things that are way more closely associated with “master”: MasterClass, masterpiece, Jedi M
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The “silence is complicit” stuff does really annoy me. Shaming people for not having the same political beliefs is already one thing. But shaming them for having those beliefs, but not sharing them in arenas they’re not comfortable sharing

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